| fabric type |
IAIT-A-1
|
| ware |
Transport Amphorae |
| supposed site of production |
Monte Iato / Iaitas |
| certainty of arguments |
archaeometric: quite certain, archaeological: quite certain |
| visual excamination of fresh break |
Dark pinkish clay, coarse and granular, with a good amount of visible inclusions of small and big size and of reddish or white-yellowish colour |
| colour of freshly broken section (munsell) |
2.5 YR 6/6 |
| texture of freshly broken surface |
granular |
| hardness |
very hard |
| porosity |
void form: channel; vughy; void length: 0.08-1.31 (channel lenght) |
| inclusions |
length: 0.04-1.59 |
| sorting |
well sorted sand in different compositions |
| |
Inclusions
|
|
quartz |
infrequent, well rounded; rounded, very spherical; subspherical, whitish or transparent, 0.08-0.16-40 |
|
calciumcarbonate |
frequent/infrequent, well rounded, very spherical, white, 0.04-08-0.40 |
|
carbonate pseudomorphoses |
frequent, well rounded; rounded, very spherical, white/yellowish, 0.04-0.40 |
|
black iron oxide concretions |
singular, well rounded, elongate, brownish black, 0.24 |
|
red iron oxide concretions |
sporadic, subangular, spherical, dark red, 0.08-0.32 |
|
reddish inclusions |
frequent, subrounded; subangular, spherical; subspherical, red, 0.04-08-0.40 |
|
more inclusions2 |
frequent, rounded, very spherical, orangish/pinkish, 0.08-0.56-60 |
|
more inclusions3 |
frequent, well rounded; rounded, very spherical; linear, yellow /light yellow, 0.16-0.83-1.59 |
representative sample for IAIT-A-1 
production
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